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Davina wants to bring Streetmate back (Picture: TwoFour)Davina McCall wants to bring Streetmate back and we fully back this idea.

For children of the 90s this was one of the best shows on TV, where Davina trawled the streets of various cities picking out single randomers to then find them another single randomer to have a date with.

Move over First Dates. There was nothing quite like seeing Davina running around a B&Q asking the staff if they had girlfriends or boyfriends, then whipping them off mid-shift to go around town to find them a mate for that night.

Remember Streetmate? Davina wants it back! (Picture: Channel 4)

Then she’d film their awkward date, sometimes bum-clenchingly cringe, which made for BRILLIANT TV.

Well guys, she wants it back. And not just a one off for Stand Up To Cancer.

When asked if there was any likelihood it could come back, she exclusively told Metro.co.uk: ‘I’m 100% up for it!’

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So Davina is on board, big fat tick. And it get’s better: ‘It’s a very definite possibility. Channel 4 are very interested so let’s start the campaign, come on Metro!’ she said.

Hold the phone, this could actually happen.

Well, this is Metro.co.uk starting the campaign. We’re on it, D.

Streetmate aside, we were actually there to chat to Davina, 48, about her new show, This Time Next Year, which is a show with an incredible premise of having participants make pledges of what they’d like to achieve in a year’s time- filmed last year – and then finding out whether they managed it or not.

Davina hasn’t really been wearing that dress for a year (Picture: Channel 4)‘There are some incredible stories coming out of the show. The way we filmed it was that I met them a year ago, and then I met them a year later and had no idea what the outcome would be,’ she revealed. Each episode will show the before and after, and Davina was kept in the dark about their successes.

And not everyone was successful, whether it was a woman who wanted to lose weight, a woman who wanted to become a body builder, or for a 74-year-old to find love.

When asked if each pledge was fulfilled, she said: ‘No absolutely not. And that’s the really interesting thing, some of them are incredibly brave to come back a year later and reveal that for whatever reason it didn’t happen, like something happened in their personal life.

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‘They got no help from the show either, they had to do it all themselves.

Davina’s new show will see if people managed to carry out their pledgs (Picture: ITV)‘It was great to see the people who did manage it, but how amazing for the ones who didn’t to come back on and face up to it.’

Davina explained that the show has a ‘time travel’ element, so us viewers will see the reveal immediately after seeing the participant make the pledge.

‘I had to film for three days wearing the same dress, and hair, and make up and then a year later I had the same dress, and hair, and make up. For the viewer it’ll be like you time travelled.’

But put away the tissues, it won’t be like some of her other heart-wrenching shows like Long Lost Family.

‘It is a show full of absolute joy,’ she said.

Jane went on the show with the hope of achieving her pledge (Picture: ITV)And would she make a pledge to achieve something in a year? She already has.